Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they had to build the big boosters in the arm's war, so now all of the sudden Russia could take off the shelf and put into orbit much heavier things than we could, so that's why they had the original leadership.

Confidence in nonsense is required.